The rapid growth of technology has increased the importance of the English language, as it is the language spoken by most people in the world. It plays an important role in many industries including medicine, engineering, education, etc. The growing demand for English has made learning English a passion and also a fashion for many Indian citizens. Many teaching methodologies are adopted by teachers to facilitate the learning of English. But no methodology has been successful in teaching English to students from rural backgrounds. Teaching a foreign language to students has become a difficult task for Indian teachers, especially teachers from rural backgrounds. In the current scenario, most of the teachers give importance only to task-based approach, completely neglecting grammar i.e. traditional approach. . Although teachers try to teach grammar, students pay little attention to grammar. But without grammar, there is no good communication. This article shows how to give students task-based lessons without neglecting grammar and vocabulary. Keywords: approaches, task-based grammar lessons, learning vocabulary through pictures, activities that increase accuracy and mastery levels. How to Teach English to Rural Students Background?I: Introduction:Communication is a two-way process that we use from birth. We use communication to connect and develop effective relationships with each other. It is an interdisciplinary method because it involves the sender, the transmitter and the receiver. There are a multitude of ways to communicate with others, but language is the main way to approach them. Language plays a vital role in the means...... middle of paper...... Schaum's Outlines Series.McGraw Hill.1991.Print.Lakshmynarayana.KR English for technical communication. Chennai: SCITECH Publications (India) Pvt.Ltd.2004.Print. McCarthy Michael and Felicity O'Dell. English vocabulary used. United Kingdom.Cambridge University Press.1999.Print.McCarthy Michael & Felicity o'Dell. English phrasal verbs used. Cambridge University Press. 2004.print.Nageshwar Rao and Rajendra .P.Das (eds). Communication skills. Mumbai: Himalaya Publishing House. 2005.Print.Raymond Murphy. Murphy's English Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.2004.Print.Richard.C.Jack. Communicative language teaching today. Cambridge University Press. 2006 Shovel Martin. Making sense of phrasal verbs.UK:Prentice Hall International Limited.1992.Print.Susan Ratcliffe. Oxford Quotes and Proverbs. United States: Oxford University Press.2001.Print.